The Premiere
Back from a successful tour of the United Kingdom, including a sellout performance at Sadler’s Wells, The Premiere is a story of greed, love and revenge with roots in traditions of the great Greek masters. Written by Ben Myers, the play examines the cult of the celebrity from stagehands to security guards and obsessive fans to ‘wannabees’, everyone has their say on the fabulous, glamorous world of the film star.
Playing from March 11 - 15 2008 at the Playhouse Theatre, The Premiere was a fantastic show featuring some of the best young local talent.
Coram Boy
Midnite Theatre Company with the Playhouse Theatre present leading WA actors Caroline McKenzie and Michael Loney in the Australian Premiere production of the Royal National Theatre’s smash hit ‘family’ play Coram Boy, for a strictly limited season. Directed by Anthony Howes and designed by Jay Brien & Dean Morris, the play has a cast of sixty actors and musicians, including Organist Stuart Smith.
Coram Boy, adapted by Helen Edmundson from the prize-winning children’s book by Jamila Gavin, is set in the 18th century England and takes audiences from Gloucester Cathedral, with its mystery and music; to the squalor of the Bristol Docks; from the slave-trade in unwanted children and the Coram Hospital for Foundlings; to the opulence of aristocratic high-society drawing rooms with concerts conducted by George Frideric Handel himself! It is a tale of two orphans at the Coram Hospital for deserted children – Toby, saved from an African slave ship, and Aaron, the abandoned son of the heir to a great Gloucestershire estate. It is the story of passion and simple faith, profound compassion and the power of music to uplift the spirit and reflect, perhaps, an image of God.
“…another superb children’s novel, brought to the stage in a production that is gripping, terrifying, beautiful and moving as anything you will see in the theatre this year…” - Daily Telegraph, London.
Coram Boy was performed at The Playhouse Theatre, Perth, Western Australia from the 17th to 22nd April 2008.
The Cherry Orchard
This terrific production performed at Christ Church Grammar School Drama Centre. Featured the talented Amy Webb. Directed by our own Chris Willesee. Set and Lighting by Dean Morris, Costumes by Jay Brien. With Midnite’s usual line up of brllliant young performers this was another triumph.
The Artistic Director Mr Tony Howes wishes to thank the wonderful cast, crew and creative team for this superb production.
The Fantasticks
“The Fantasticks” is one of the world’s most successful pieces of music theatre, beginning off-Broadway in 1960, it has played successfully, almost continuously, since that time! It tells the romantic story of Luisa and Matt, as they grow up, fall in love, find the world a bewildering place, a savage place, yet a place of fulfilment through family and their love. “The Fantasticks” hits include “Try To Remember”, “Soon it’s Gonna Rain”, “The Abduction Ballet” and many more. Comedy and Romance are finely balanced in the play which takes its inspiration from the French author, Rostand’s story, entitled “Les Romanesques”.
Teechers
Teechers by Jon Godber and Directed by Colin Thomson and Callum Ormonde has opened. A classic comedy that was enjoyed by all.
